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RAVEL: DAPHNIS AND CHLOË, SUITE NO. 2, and ROUSSEL: BACCHUS AND ARIADNE, SUITE NO. 2 (RCA Victor). For his first recording with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, new Conductor Jean Martinon chose flashy and familiar works-two Dionysian ballets by fellow Frenchmen. Orchestra and conductor show up well, from the airy pianissimos that signal the break of day in the Ravel to the wildly pounding bacchanalia that climax the Roussel...
...ROUSSEL: THE SPIDER'S FEAST (Angel). For this ballet pantomime, inspired by the observations of French Entomologist Jean Henri Fabre, Roussel's impressionistic music transports the ants and the beetles into an enchanted cobwebbed garden. Andre Cluytens and the Paris Conservatory Orchestra touch other milestones of the composer's career by playing his later ballet music, Bacchus et Ariane, and the Sinfonietta for Strings, a miniature symphony in his mature classical style...
...right tension with each other but also possessed lives of their own. Whether turning out monuments or figures a few inches high, he could produce any mood he chose. In his 21 studies of Beethoven, he distorted and exaggerated to reveal violence, sadness or ecstasy. In his Madame Roussel with Hat, the mood is elegantly casual, and few sculptures possess such an air of sweet repose as his Sculptress Resting, which is also a portrait of his wife...
...gaudy fanfares for the occasion were by Paul Hindemith and Albert Roussel, and new works by some of the most glittering names in contemporary music were getting a first hearing. But in the second week of a five-week-long festival dedicating the University of California's $2,200,000 music center at Berkeley, the most exciting sounds came from a comparative unknown: Manhattan-born Composer Andrew Imbrie...
...many of the pitfalls that helped wreck the worker priest movement, e.g., Communist inroads, marriage by some priests. For one thing, the sisters are kept under tight discipline, report frequently to their superior; for another, working mostly with women, they do not face so tough a political opposition. Abbe Roussel, who reports directly to Cardinal Feltin of Paris, looks forward to seeing his secular movement turn eventually into a full-fledged religious order...